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TIFFDUMP

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: October 23, 2005
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NAME

tiffdump - print verbatim information aboutTIFFfiles

SYNOPSIS

tiffdump[options]name ...

DESCRIPTION

tiffdumpdisplays directory information from files created accordingto the Tag Image File Format, Revision 6.0.The header of eachTIFFfile (magic number, version, and first directory offset)is displayed, followed by the tag contents of each directory in the file.For each tag, the name, data type, count, and value(s) is displayed.When the symbolic name for a tag or data type is known, the symbolicname is displayed followed by it's numeric (decimal) value.Tag values are displayed enclosed in ``<>'' characters immediatelypreceded by the value of the count field.For example, anImageWidthtag might be displayed as ``ImageWidth (256) SHORT (3) 1<800>''.

tiffdumpis particularly useful for investigating the contents ofTIFFfiles thatlibtiffdoes not understand.

OPTIONS

-h: Force numeric data to be printed in hexadecimal rather than thedefault decimal.
-m items: Change the number of indirect data items that are printed. By default, thiswill be 24.
-o offset: Dump the contents of the IFDat the a particular file offset.The file offset may be specified using the usual C-style syntax;i.e. a leading ``0x'' for hexadecimal and a leading ``0'' for octal.